The New Year provides all kinds of hope. Both real, and false.
If your gym gave you back a dollar for every day you went, would you make money on your New Year’s resolution?
Better yet, if you made a bet with yourself to write, every day, would you put yourself in a position to succeed.
Repetition. That’s the key.
Building good habits without relent is difficult. And it isn’t just hard for you. Everyone struggles with it. If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be so many self-help books… written by ghost writers.
Make your bed.
Do the dishes.
If you give your word, keep it.
Simple enough tasks that enable you to key off of successes and build off of completed goals… but only if you get them done.
If you’ve ever done a group project, or better yet, had to work with other people at any time… how often do you find yourself (or maybe it’s you and you don’t realize it) working with people that spend more time avoiding the work than they do actually getting involved.
If you have to haul the water and the wood, there isn’t always enough of you to go around. Which breeds frustrations and exhaustion.
Hold your tongue, tuck your head, and push on.
You’ll never convince the pretenders that they aren’t pulling their weight.